A proposed "family detention rule" would allow the U.S. government to jail immigrant children indefinitely

Immigrant children could be detained for longer periods of time in harsher, jail-like detention centers

The administration’s family detention rule gut a decades-old agreement, called the Flores Settlement Agreement, which ensures that immigrant children who enter the U.S. are treated humanely. Without its legal protections, the government doesn’t have to meet any standards on the conditions of its immigration detention centers, and it doesn’t have any limits on how long it can jail children.

There were many, many people [in detention]. I saw a young woman who was seven months pregnant with a 1-year-old baby. They had been in the icebox for a week. They were sleeping on the floor, covered with aluminum blankets, and they could barely move from the cold.